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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS ABSENT MISTRESS, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poet's Biography
First Line: This rose I pluck in exile, dear
Last Line: Of sorrow through the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
First Line: This rose I pluck in exile, dear
Last Line: Of sorrow through the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
THIS rose I pluck in exile, dear,
Ah, would that I might be
But now the happy messenger
To carry it to thee.
But ere my zealous touch were laid
Upon thy latchet far,
My little gathered rose would fade,
For thus the roses are.
Alas, that any lover knows
A wearier way to meet,
Than he might bear a gathered rose
Still virginal and sweet, --
Than for her sprigs the nightingale
Goes on her nesting flight,
Or sends upon the wind her tale
Of sorrow through the night.
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